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rotub

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HTML herder, CSS crafter. Surfer. Skateboarder. Adventurer.
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rotub··on Back to the iPhone 5S
PRO TIP: Do people forget you can lightly tap the home button twice to bring the top of the screen halfway down the screens length to make it reachable with one hand?
rotub··on How Text Messages Change from Dating to Marriage
I really enjoyed this thanks for sharing and I have bookmarked your site for future reference. It seems like a great idea if you keep it up which I hope you do.
rotub··on Realtime streaming from torrents in the browser
Searched and started playing an episode of the Simpsons on my iPhone within a minute. Impressive!
rotub··on Ask HN: What are your favorite books? I'm bored
Read a kids book, seriously — http://www.rotub.me/blog/kids-books.html
rotub··on Letting go
I think he means the letter I, not the word I.

Funny observation, but it's true...plus...if it's not an I it's a T, except for the last one.

rotub··on Tortured by the Japanese in WW2, a former POW met his tormentor 50 years later
My brother and sister walked 325km from Ban Pong to Sangkhla Buri along what exists of this very railway. It was in memory of a POW my brother met at our church who worked on the railway during his time in the war.

My sister wrote a book about the experience called Norn Lup? A Journey Of Railways, Roads, & Wats. http://intrepid-girl.com/blog/writing/buy-the-book-norn-lup-...

And my brother made a documentary http://www.lukenowell.com/projects/lukenowell/thailandtrek/

Hope people don't mind these plugs but they both add value to the story behind this railway and the people who worked on it against their will.

You can read about their expedition here http://www.deathrailwaywalk.com/

rotub··on Show HN: Feeling-based movie search
This is a nice idea, and well executed. Well done! :)
rotub··on Any good api to scrape HN other than this?
https://www.hnsearch.com/api
rotub··on 10k+ API directory
I've been looking for a website that is exactly what this is. Thank you!
rotub··on Little Alchemy
I love this game. I had it on iPhone for a while.

I created life, and man and some other cool stuff. It got too hard though!

rotub··on Ask HN: What habit have you dropped or picked up that improved your life?
I started doing this as well. Apparently your hair will eventually clean itself naturally. Shampooing often actually makes it produce oil.
rotub··on Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator
Sometimes I go to "collapse" a comment or a post when actually i am up-voting it! The arrow looks like a collapse link rather than an up-vote link.
rotub··on Please tell us what features you'd like in news.ycombinator
Please make the UPVOTE (and downvote?) button/s more obvious and usable. I feel like people don't up-vote things simply because they forget that they can!
rotub··on Show HN: Meet Sid, our Raspberry-Pi-powered office robot
I saw that! :)
rotub··on Show HN: Meet Sid, our Raspberry-Pi-powered office robot
That was fun! I'm surprised how responsive and easy it was to pick up the controls.
rotub··on Show HN: My embarrassingly simple printscreen weekend webapp
I'm a bit confused. I can only manage to screen shot the website itself. How do I, say, screenshot my desktop?
rotub··on Show HN: CinemaBuff - Actor graphs using IMDB ratings
Really nice idea mate, well done.
rotub··on I live in the near future
Welcome to the wooooorld of tomorrowww.
rotub··on Should you delete all emails you get while you are on holiday?
Personally I like this idea. If it's urgent it will come up again on return
rotub··on Show HN: Popcorn.fm — Movie and TV show recommendations
You guys have done a good job, well done
rotub··on Poll: Do you have a 3d printer?
I may buy one in the future, but not any time soon.
rotub··on I skateboarded 85km from Sydney to Wollongong. It took me 12 hours
All I wore was shorts and a t-shirt. I was cold the whole time but it was OK because I kept moving pretty much the whole way.

I was absolutely freezing waiting for my train at the station in Wollongong for a good 20-30 mins, and again on the train because it was air-conditioned. I was getting a bit worried as time went on because I was seriously cold. But I knew it would make that hot shower that much sweeter once I had arrived home, which it did.

rotub··on I skateboarded 85km from Sydney to Wollongong. It took me 12 hours
this happened a few times especially on the highway in the dark

thanks for your kind words!

rotub··on I skateboarded 85km from Sydney to Wollongong. It took me 12 hours
I grew up on a shortboard, and don't really like longboards. I do own one and it was a conscious decision not to use it.
rotub··on I skateboarded 85km from Sydney to Wollongong. It took me 12 hours
haha thanks man
rotub··on I skateboarded 85km from Sydney to Wollongong. It took me 12 hours
Thank you!
rotub··on I skateboarded 85km from Sydney to Wollongong. It took me 12 hours
lol
rotub··on I skateboarded 85km from Sydney to Wollongong. It took me 12 hours
thanks
rotub··on I skateboarded 85km from Sydney to Wollongong. It took me 12 hours
Yeah it was sketchy but thrilling at the same time. I planned to have lights and reflectors but in the end I just had to do it and stop 'planning' it.
rotub··on I skateboarded 85km from Sydney to Wollongong. It took me 12 hours
Yeah rather than taking the highway the whole way, I took the turn off in order to ride along the coast (and across the sea cliff bridge), through Coledale, Bulli etc; it probably added a lot of time but it was the way I had always wanted to go. Skateboarding on the highway is fun for about 10 minutes.
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